Lottery officials have upped their estimated jackpot to a whopping $640 million, actually making it a worse bet than it was yesterday. That means that by the time of tonight’s drawing, they expect to have sold some 625 million tickets. That’s more than two tickets for every man, woman and child in the U.S. It’s also some 200 million more tickets than they expected to sell as of yesterday.

Whether or not you joined the ticket-buying frenzy, expect it all to be over soon. The odds strongly suggest that when the final ball stops rolling this evening, someone will be America’s newest multimillionaire.

Actually, make that “someones,” plural.

Based on the odds of winning (1 in 176 million) and the number of tickets sold, there’s now a roughly 94% chance of at least one person picking the winner. But there’s just a 10% chance of a solo winner, meaning most likely the pot will have to be split. The odds of there being two winners are higher, but still just 15%. The most likely outcome is that there will be three or even four winners, each of which carry about a 20% chance. And there’s a nearly 2% chance that eight different winners will each take home $58 million in (pre-tax) cash. (Check out this handy guide to lottery math if you want to see how to do the math yourself.)

None of this, by the way, changes your odds. The probability of any given ticket winning is 0.00000057%.

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